Nelson v. State

Tíylok, J.:

The plaintiff in error was. indicted and tried at tha Pali term, 1892, of the Circuit Court for Marion county, for murder in the first dégree of one Charles Davis, the trial resulting in the following general verdict, viz: ilWe the jury, find the defendant guilty.” Upon the refusal of the court below to grant his motion for a new trial, the defendant was sentenced to die, and brings his case here by writ of error.

The insufficiency of the verdict in not specifying the degree of murder of which it finds the defendant guilty, is assigned as error. This court at it last term, in the…